Facebook could have said: “Here’s a tool for you to create hashes of anything you’re afraid someone might post in revenge. Send us the hashes and if we see matching posts we’ll evaluate their content then and take them down if needed.”

10 novembre

I’d say Lone Echo is twice as long as its limited gameplay warrants, but what a great, polished VR experience. Not the slightest motion sickness, and the realism of those hand animations does so much for immersion.

Two months ago, Louis CK had said his accusers were spreading “rumors.” His fans continued to revere him. Under pressure, he has now confessed and awaits patiently his redemption. There is a script, and men know it by heart.

13 novembre

With cannabis legal in so many states, why isn’t there a cable news show that spends an hour a week exploring the changes this brings about? Such a large change, an end to Prohibition, seems there would be quite a bit of interesting stuff to discuss about it.

There’s a story about Team America where the first cut submitted for a rating had a 10-minute graphic puppet sex scene, reason being they knew it would get an X rating but if they then cut it to a reasonable length and resubmitted it would probably get an R.

Whether consciously or not, EA just did that with Battlefront. Everyone rejected the original system, they went “Cool, it’s now an arbitrary 75% better,” and I’m already seeing people say the core issue is “fixed.”

Idea: What if Flash in the Justice League moved at 48fps in an otherwise 24fps movie? (I guess his scenes would be shot at 48, downsampled to 24 except his roto cutout, then projected at 48). Might it look cool? Or bad like he was not actually shot in the same scene? // @tvaziri?

Al Capone theory: People who engage in sexual harassment are also likely to steal, plagiarize, embezzle, etc. These are the actions of someone who feels entitled to other people’s ideas, bodies, money [newyorker.com]

Ok hear me out: an LA Noire/Blade Runner game except you’re an exorcist identifying demons by finding signs & tells in dialogue, and then you have to expel them from their hosts in unique ways across different cases.

For the next six months, I’ll be visualizing my REM dreams every morning in #VR with #TiltBrush to analyze, expand, and unify them into a singular VR experience. This is a preview of one that I built in 3 days.

Banished is almost more of an idle game than a city builder but I just spent three hours in it and it is nicely zen (except when I feel bad for killing so many trees in order to build my silly little town)

18 novembre

That goes further than a misunderstanding brought on by an unfamiliarity with social interactions. That’s bigotry. And autism doesn’t cause bigotry, yet here he is, blaming it all on the world’s favorite cognitive boogeyman.

I tried the new “fixed human scale” mode again and, as much as I love Google Earth VR, it still doesn’t do it for me — at all. I don’t know if I need more pixels or I’ve just never dreamed of being Superman. As opposed to holding New York in the palm of my hand 😀

Among my top 10 games of all time, Mass Effect is still the one that was most tailor-made for me. Ambitious sci-fi world-building, interesting characters, accessible combat, that ‘70s/‘80s aesthetic. I still sometimes have chills listening to M4 (Part II).

Other “your perception of time is fucked up” facts: we lived closer to Tyrannosaurus than tyrannosaurus lives to stegosaurus. Betty White is older than factory-sliced bread. Oxford University is older than the founding of the Aztec Capitol of Tenochtitlán.

Opus Magnum has been updated with a new mini-campaign exploring “production alchemy”, which takes place in the confined spaces of production-grade transmutation engines! More details here: [steamcommunity.com]

Clicked an openꓸspotifyꓸcom link on my laptop, Spotify playing on the desktop instantly changed tracks. (I’d have liked a confirmation step but) That UX runs circles around Apple and doesn’t even use any kind of direct local-network connection.

I keep being surprised (and disappointed) by how little Prey really has in common with Dishonored. Not sure if marketing or my brain’s fault — but I remember a strong emphasis on mimic matter, with the implication that you’d do a whole bunch of other wacky things?

BREAKING: American Airlines says computer glitch allowed all pilots to take vacation over Christmas week. Now union says thousands of flights are in jeopardy of cancellation. Americans says they’re offering 1.5x pay for pilots to fill in and expect to resolve the issue.